Elementary Grades

Grade 5

Linking history and geography—studying where things happened to understand how things happened—this yearlong inquiry-based curriculum integrates a history atlas with markable maps and globes. Kids actively put history in its place. Available with Spanish resources.
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Each spread in this atlas asks an essential question (like “How did slavery divide the nation?”) and then uses visualizations and captions to help students understand the historical situation. Instead of a textbook feeding students predigested answers, it’s an atlas that asks students what they think. Available in Spanish.
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Designed for students just becoming ready for the main details of geographic information, these maps focus on world and U.S. political divisions by using contrasting colors to make states and countries easy to see, while shaded relief shows relationships between physical and political geography.
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Designed for students just becoming ready for the main details of geographic information, this globe uses color to focus on world and U.S. political divisions, while shaded 3-D raised relief lets students uncover relationships between physical and political geography.
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Equip students to investigate the main biomes of the U.S. and the world. While shaded relief plainly reveals mountainous areas, colors classify terrain as forest, grassland, desert, or alpine. The maps also show capital and major cities as well as national and state boundary lines.
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Focuses on Earth's environments: its forest, grassland, desert, and alpine terrain regions. The globe also shows capital and major cities as well as national and state boundary lines, while shaded 3-D raised relief puts students in touch with the world’s mountainous areas.
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Make all of Nystrom’s elementary maps, globes, atlases, and activity sets digital and available to teachers and students both at home and in school. Nystrom’s carefully spiraled K–5 geography resources allow teachers to support and challenge every student at just the right level.
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